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I LAMP WIOK CLEANER. N0.278, 075. Patnted May 22,1883.

PATENT OFFICE.

enARLEs-E. BALDWIN, on NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR' on ONE-HALF TOCORNELIUS BEARD, ()F-SAME PLACE.

LAMP-WICK CLEANER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 278,075, dated May 22,18 83.

Application filed March 20, 1593. (X model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES E. BALDWIN,acitizen ofthe United States ofNo'rth America, and a resident of thecity, county, and State of New York, have invented anew and nseluL' r5cured to the lamp-burner in such a position that the diagonal portion ofthe cleaner may at will be passed back and forth directlyover the top ofthe wick-tube and against the edge of the wick therein held; anditfurther consists of the method of removing or preventing thewick-incrustations by applying the cleaner diagonally across the wick,all of which will be hereinafter set forth.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures. Figure 1 is a sectional sideelevation of a lamp with my improved device in position. 0 Fig. 2 is aplan of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan of my improved device in positionover a wick.- Fig. 4c is a plan of the same turned'aside from the wick.Fig. 5 is a side elevation of an Argand burner, showing a modificationof my wick-cleanerimmovably fixed thereon. Fig.

6 is a plan'of the same.

In the drawings, A represents a lamp, B the burner, O the wick-tube, Dthe wick, E the burner-cap, and F the wick-adjuster, all 4.0 of whichare of the usual construction, and hence require no further descriptionherein.

The wick-cleaner G consists of a metal rod or wire Wrought into shape,with its horizontal central section, a, terminating at each end in 4 5perpendicular depending arms b I), respectively, which are oppositelyinclined from each other, as shown in Fig. 3, so that relatively thesection a is held diagonally between them, and said arms b b terminatein horizontal arms c 0, respectively, that are on the same horizontalline with each other, and themselves terminate in depending ends d (1,respectively, that are parallel with each other.

When this wick-cleaner is fixed in position. with its diagonal section aabove the top of the wick-tube 0, its arms 1) I) close to the verticaledges of the tube 0, its arms cc extended through opposite perforationsin the sides of the lamp-burner B, and its ends cl d depending outsidethe said burner B, as shown in Figs. 1 and3, a handle or button,f, isformed on the longer end (Z for convenience in operating the device.

The normal position of the cleaner G, relatively to thelamp-wick, is, asindicated in Fig. 6 4, with the section a turned aside; but when thewick becomes incrusted the crust is removed therefrom by the operatortaking hold of the handle or button f, and thereby movingthe cleaner G,so that its section a, shall, with a relatively-diagonal movement, bepassed across the top of said wick, as indicated in Fig. 3.

It will be obvious that were a wick-cleaner of this character to bepassed relatively straight from side to side across and parallel withthe 7 wick the flame would surely be extinguished, if the wick were anarrow one, and that with a wider fiat wick the risk of extinguishingthe fiame would begreat, while by therelative movement of thisimprovedcleaner-a grad ual- 8o ly-progressive diagonal movement from one to theother corner of the wick-the flame cannot be extinguished.

In the application of this wick-cleaner and method of cleaning wicksI donot confine my- 8 self to the style of lamp and wick herein shown, as itis obvious that the cleaner can, without departing from my invention, beadapted to lamps and wicks of other construction and shapes.

In Figs. 5 and 6 is shown a modification of my wick-cleaner wherein thecleanerGis firmly fixed on the base of an Argand burner, L, containing awick. D. In this instance the horizontal arm a of the cleaner G isbranched into 9 5 two diagonal sections or points, a a, that are heldimmediately above the edge of the wick D, as shown. In this instance itis designed to turn the burner or wick-tube, and thereby the wick, upwhen the latter requires cleaning or the removal of incrustation, andwhen so turned the edge of said wick is presented gradually anddiagonally against the cleaner-sections a 0., whereby the inorustationis removed.

It isdesigned in all cases to set the diagonal portion of the cleaner Grjust far enough above the top of the wick-tube or burner to indicate theproper adjustment of the wick, the wick to be turned up only so far asto touch the cleaner in order to produce the most-complete combustionand the clearest light.

By an occasional relative movement of the cleaner and wick the formationof incrustation sufficient to affect the light will be absolutelyprevented, and the minute particles of carbon thereby removed by thisoccasional movement, being carried up in the ascending flame, willbecome incandescent and vaporized, so that neither the lamp nor anysurrounding objects will be soiled by deposits of carbon.

Having thus described myinvention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent-- 1. The combination, with the burner B and wick O, ofthe lamp-wick cleaner G, constructed substantially as herein shown anddescribed, With horizontal central section, a, dependingoppositely-inclined arms b b, horizontal arms 0 c, and depending ends 61d, as set forth.

2. A lamp-wick cleaner consisting ofa metal rod or Wire Wrought intoform, substantially as herein shown and describedywith horizontaldiagonally-placed central section, a, held up by perpendicularoppositely-inclined arms I) b, that terminate in horizontal arms 0 c,having depending extremities d d, and handlef, as set forth.

In testimony thatI claim the foregoingras my invention I have signed myname, in presence ot two witnesses, this 9th day of March, 1883.

CHARLES E. .BALDVVIN.

Witnesses:

JACOB J. STORER, CHAS. A. Hess.

